lunch

American  

[luhnch] / lʌntʃ /

noun

1. a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.

2. any light meal or snack.

3. a restaurant or lunchroom.

   Let's eat at the dairy lunch.

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verb (used without object)

1. to eat lunch.

   We lunched quite late today.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide lunch for.

   They lunched us in regal fashion.

idioms

1. out to lunch, not paying attention or tending to business; negligent.

   You must have been out to lunch when you wrote that weird report.

lunch British  

/ lʌntʃ /

noun

1. a meal eaten during the middle of the day

2. (among older people) mid-afternoon tea

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verb

1. (intr) to eat lunch

2. (tr) to provide or buy lunch for

lunch More Idioms  

1. see eat someone alive (someone's lunch); free lunch; lose one's lunch; out to (lunch).

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Other Word Forms

• luncher noun
• lunchless adjective
• prelunch adjective

Etymology

Origin of lunch

First recorded in 1585–95; short for luncheon

Example Sentences

I think of all the times this year that I’ve eaten lunch alone in a stall in the girls’ bathroom.

From Literature

It’s open for lunch, which we enjoyed, but I do wish we had gone for dinner, when live music fills the restaurant.

From Salon

Elsewhere, the emails indicate a lunch was held between Ferguson, her daughters and Epstein.

From BBC

"At the lunch hour, where our restaurants are typically full, we saw empty restaurants. Even during the pandemic, it seems like we were more resilient."

From BBC

Other emails were exchanged in December about Howard Lutnick joining Epstein for lunch on the island.

From BBC